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Machine Learning with R Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Machine Learning with R Quick Start Guide A beginner's guide to implementing machine learning techniques from scratch using R 3.5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838644338
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Iván Pastor Sanz Iván Pastor Sanz
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Predicting sovereign ratings using European country reports

According to the model based on macroeconomic information described in the Predicting country ratings using macroeconomic information section, decision trees can be considered a good alternative approach to predicting sovereign ratings.

Nevertheless, qualitative information represents an important and low transparent part of the rating assignment. In this section, we propose a model using only qualitative information based on the so-called country reports, published by the European Commission.

These reports, mainly published at the end of February, contain an annual analysis of the economic and social challenges for the EU member states.

For example, at the following link, we can download the country reports published in 2018, https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/2018-european-semester-country-reports_en. For all...

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